Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pusey said radical groups have lately attempted to suppress dissent within their own ranks. "A threat to freedom, motivated by a desire to impose conformity, grows among us," he said...
...tenth reunion we, the undersigned members of the Radcliffe class of 1960, condemn the Administration's invasion of Cambodia, the continuing killing in Vietnam, and the violent repression of political dissent at home. We support the students' effort to create a more human environment and to change the existing system through political action. We thank them for sharpening our awareness and imparting to us a sense of urgency...
...Repression of Dissent...
Mindful of the damage he had caused by calling some protesters bums, Nixon declared: "I am proud to say that the great majority of America's young people do not approve of violence. The great majority do approve, as I do, of dissent." Then he added a passage that might cause rueful smiles among veterans of antiwar confrontations: "It isn't the beat generation. It isn't the beat-up generation." Rather, he declared, it will be "the great generation...
...conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing to the voters' bankbook is never dangerous. The President understands this well. He believes one of the reasons he lost the 1960 election was that the Republicans had allowed the economy to slow down. But he remains convinced that he can control the economy by cutbacks in Government...